Man, was this ever the stand out for me. What a great, innovative idea for a cake! As a designer, I love going through the cake display in general. There are so many creative decisions that are made (or not made) that make looking at the creations well worth the time.
One of the best aspects of the State Fair for me is the plethora of fantastic backs and straps. The design combinations are never ending.
I liked this one in particular because of the bright lime green X across the middle of her back.
A variation on my ‘Truths and Things I Made Up About This Woman’ series.
Continuing on with my high contrast series.
Came to work back in 2006 to find we had a black out after a big storm. Couldn’t work
in my office since it has no windows and is in the tornado shelter hallway, VERY dark.
I walked around taking some photos of students studying under some of the emergency
lights that were on.
Number 5 in my week of American Colors.
I chose this one for the Fourth of July because it is the quintessential eccentric American scene. The guy who lives in this house is a golf fanatic. He has a mini putting green on his lawn, complete with sand trap, water hazard (off to the right) and a pin. In the background is Old Glory illuminated by the sun. Gotta love America!
I was sitting in a design meeting at OSU Medical Center in Tulsa and before it started I noticed the
big flag in the atrium intersected with the vertical blinds in our conference room. Easy choice to
take the shot right then.
Day two of my week-long series on American colors in celebration of the 4th of July.
I Found this American scene while photographing near the railroad tracks and Arkansas River in
Tulsa back in 2006. I think it was part of a run down garage next to a run down house. But that
really didn’t matter. What mattered was the undesigned, unanticipated beauty of the American
colors in such an unlikely spot.
4th day of my series of Color Compositions taken at the Cherry Street Farmer’s Market in Tulsa, OK
I didn’t set this up except to ask the woman if I could take her photo just the way she
was. She had the tattoo and she had the flower just like that.
A continuation of the Color Composition series I started last week. The photos were
all taken on a very bright and sunny morning at the farmer’s market as part of a
photography group I was leading that day where we focused on color and composition as
the defining factor in a photograph.
I just had to catch up with this woman and ask her to if I could take her photo. She
was standing right next to this table and the red/red/red was just too luscious to
resist!
Cherry Street Farmer’s Market, 6/14/08, Tulsa, Oklahoma
This wasn’t really taken in London, it just feels like a victorian London scene, ala
Jack the Ripper, so I titled it that.
The shadow is actually me shining a small flashlight on her face during a long
exposure. I didn’t realize the shadow would be there but when I looked at it later it
certainly had a very cool effect, adding to the content of the image.